Carlos Gomez of the Milwaukee Brewers steals second base in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Rockies. More photos from the game[1]. (Mike McGinnis, Getty Images)

MILWAUKEE — Get me re-write! Oh, wait, different era entirely.

There were a lot of questions to be asked after the Rockies lost 3-2 to the Brewers Friday night[2], suffering their 10th defeat in their last 11 games. A few of those questions didn’t get answered in my deadline game story, so I’ll attempt to answer them here:

1. Why did manager Walt Weiss elect to have Matt Belisle pitch to Ryan Braun in the ninth instead of intentionally walking Braun to get to Jonathan Lucroy

Lucroy, hitting .330, is having a great year, but Braun is one of the baseball’s most feared hitters.

“It was one of those pick-your-poison situations,” Weiss said. “I wanted to give (Belisle) a couple of pitches to see where we were at. I wasn’t going to let (Braun) hit in a good hitter’s count.

“I will always take responsibility for that one. It’s not a great situation to be in, facing Braun or facing Lucroy, who is second in the league in hitting.”

Braun made Weiss pay for his decision, lacing Belisle’s first-pitch fastball up the middle to score Mark Reynolds from third. Believe it or not, it was Braun’s first walk-off hit since 2011.

Walt Weiss had to answer a lot of questions about Friday night’s loss to the Brewers. (Denver Post file)

2. Reynolds moved to third on a passed ball charged to catcher Michael McKenry. It wasn’t a pitch in the dirt, it just glanced off McKenry’s glove. Did Belisle and McKenry get their signals crossed?

“I’m not sure, but the ball got away from him and the runners advanced,” Weiss said.

It didn’t appear that McKenry was crossed up. If he had been, he would have conferred with Belisle immediately.

3. Why did Weiss pinch hit for starter Tyler Matzek in the seventh inning? After all, Matzek was terrific for six innings and the Colorado bullpen has been very bad of late.

Keep in mind that the Rockies trailed 1-0 when Matzek’s spot came open with one out in the seventh. The Rockies needed a run to get back into the game. So Weiss played the percentages and sent Brandon Barnes to the plate. He put down a safety squeeze bunt to score Josh Rutledge from third.

But wait, couldn’t Matzek have put down a bunt too? Perhaps, but probably not as neat as the one Barnes pulled off. And, besides, Barnes put that bunt down on his own and it paid off.

“We were just looking to get a run home and Brandon did that,” Weiss said.